FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008

Today is Friday, August 1, the 214th day of 2008. There are 152 days left in the year.

1291 _ Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (National Day)

1774 _ Priestly discovers oxygen

1831 _ London Bridge opens

1896 _ George Samuelson completes rowing the Atlantic (N.Y. to England)

1914 _ Germany declares war on Russia in WW I

1936 _ Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games

1960 _ Chubby Checker releases ``The Twist"

1971 _ George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC

1972 _ First article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)

1976 _ Liz Taylor's sixth divorce (redivorces Richard Burton)